Comments on: Nick Cave Rewrites The Crow, Cillian Murphy to Star?

By: Roman

Roman — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:16:43 +0000

Really, does there really need to be a Crow remake? Does there need to be a remake of Blade Runner? Does there need to be a remake of ANY classic well-received film?

Remakes can be stellar. The Humphrey Bogart “Maltese Falcon” was a remake. But the only reason to do a remake is to make better what was flawed before.

If the film has no flaws, or the audience loved it as if was originally, why bother? (Oh, right: I forgot that exploiting a good film’s reputation in order to make a bundle of cash is another reason to do a remake.)

By: Nero

Nero — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:54:51 +0000

I think Stuart Townsend would make an excellent Eric Draven. He’s a really decent actor… too bad his career never took off.

Or, obviously, Jeff Goldblum. Any movie + Jeff Goldblum = better than without.

By: DeWinterZero

DeWinterZero — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:08:02 +0000

I saw the film on release at age of 24. 15 years later in the really real I bought it on Blu-Ray. It’s still good.

The question for the remake should who will play the villians. Michael Wincott will be hard to top.

By: Lore Yseult

Lore Yseult — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:57:49 +0000

Does the Crow still hold up? I’m 35 years old now, 16 years have passed since I watched it so long ago. I recently watched it about a week ago with my niece who kept asking me what it was about. It still blew me away. It blew her away. She begged me to buy her the dvd. Chills ran down my spine and goosebumps on my arms when The Cure kicked in, Machines of Loving Grace, Medicine, TKK, STP, and even the films music score itself still holds up. The music, the acting, the romance…all is timeless in this movie.
I myself look forward to this new remake. I want to see if I can connect with the new characters. If I can FEEL their pain and sorrow. I want to feel the love loss like with the original film. The bitter sweet emotional end when Shelley comes to comfort Eric back into death. Thinking that love endures even in the afterlife all the while I find myself trying to hold back the tears. I want to see if this new movie does the same for me.
So, does it hold up? For me, it still does. Even more so now. Do I want to see the remake? Hell yeah! I have high hopes for this. As for the comic, that’s another story =D

By: ReformedGoth

ReformedGoth — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:06:14 +0000

I love reading forums where the participants aren’t going back and forth bashing each others’ idea into a concrete pilon. This makes it fun to join in, I commend everyone on here for being humans. I’d like to see Cillian Murphy, or Sam Witwer. Those two are just from the top of my head, I’m sure later tonight I’ll think of another one and scramble back here.

By: joasakura

joasakura — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:30:27 +0000

Oh, this is one of my all time favourite movies. I loved the comic, loved Brandon Lee.. just.. everything.

I need to watch this again.

And I think Cillian Murphy would be a really interesting choice- I may be the only one, but his eyes, as beautiful as they are, kind of scare me. :D

By: Novroz

Novroz — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:57:52 +0000

Cillian Murphy can play anything…so I also think he is a good candidate, tho it’s going to be ashamed not to see that gorgeous face of his because it’ll be covered in thick make up

By: desiringmachine

desiringmachine — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:33:08 +0000

I am cautiously optimistic…and disappointed at the same time. I do NOT want to see a remake. Why does it need to be remade? Why not just do a NEW Crow movie that’s actually good?

That said, Cillian was very good in The Wind that Shakes the Barley, certainly not to cute there, so he could do it. Norrington does make me cringe a bit, I think he should stick to effects, he’s done amazing work there. Blade was cool but Ex. Gents. was so disappointing.

Even with Nick Cave confirmed, I would still so much rather them do a new movie.

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:23:19 +0000

Johnathan Rhys Meyers, Gael Garcia Bernal would fit, IMHO. But if they went in the more Tom Waits, Nick Cave vitriolic, vulgar, serious tough-as-nails/ spit-and-piss direction I hope they’re going (to make it, y’know, DIFFERENT somehow), then I’d like to see a more masculine lead, or somebody who could pull off masculine. Say… Guy Pearce?

By: fortheloveofthestars

fortheloveofthestars — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:16:27 +0000

“Now, I haven’t actually seen it in over ten years, for fear that it won’t hold up. I’m told it doesn’t.”

Who tells these lies? I watched it and I felt 17 again in the best way possible. I am very different from 17 year old me and I was just as enchanted, maybe more. We just got a VHS player from my housemates dad and we’ve been watching that and ST: The Voyage home a lot (well I have.)

Cillian is so beautiful, odd and soulful. He’s the only name I could bare in the role now that I hear this rumer. Most of young Hollywood just doesn’t seem to fit it. Brandon wasn’t a big name, Cillian aside, maybe it shouldn’t be a big name. Oh beautiful Brandon. :( Maybe a musician? Brian Molko. I kid! (Mostly…)

More important than who will play Eric, who could possibly replace Ernie Hudson? I loved his cop as much as I loved Eric.